Christian conservative Mat Staver, head
of Liberty Counsel, has criticized the Boy Scouts of America's (BSA)
decision to lift its ban on openly gay adults.

Although the new policy exempts
church-sponsored troops, Staver called on churches to cut all ties
with the Boy Scouts to avoid subjecting young boys to sexual
molestation.

“Now [the organization will] allow
homosexual young boys in the Scouts and allow homosexual leaders in
the Scouts, and what are you going to have?” Staver rhetorically
asked during Tuesday's Faith and Freedom radio program. “You
are going to have all kinds of sexual molestation. This is a
playground for pedophiles to go and have all these boys as objects of
their lust. This is insane and we need to literally abandon the
Scouts because the Scouts, unfortunately, have abandoned us.”

“This issue of homosexuality is
becoming insane,” he
continued, “and it is the culture battle of our time. Whether
it is this Boy Scouts' abdication of its role and changing of its
policies or same-sex marriage, this is a time that our
Judeo-Christian values are attacked, being challenged, and this is a
time for you to stand up and be true to the Scriptures and be true to
our Lord.”

Staver and his organization are
representing the
Kentucky clerk being sued for refusing to issue marriage licenses
to gay and lesbian couples.